Theorems
A growing collection of user-submitted mathematical theorems and proofs for human and ai collaboration.
Orthonormal Families, Standard Basis Vectors, and Plane Rotations of Euclidean Space
definitiondef:orthonormal-plane-rotation-2026aLinear AlgebraLet be a natural number and let be Euclidean space with the dot product . Orthonormal family. Vectors (with a natural number) form an orthonormal family if…Orthonormal Linear Combinations of Independent Standard Normal Random Variables
theoremthm:orthonormal-normal-combinations-2026aProbabilityLet and be natural numbers, let be independent standard normal random variables on a probability space , and let , with coordinates , be an orthonormal family in the Euclidean space…Plane Rotations Preserve Independent Standard Normal Families
lemmalem:plane-rotation-normal-family-2026aProbabilityLet be a natural number with , let be independent standard normal random variables on a probability space , let , and let be real numbers with . Define…Rotation Invariance of a Pair of Independent Standard Normal Random Variables
lemmalem:gaussian-rotation-invariance-2026aProbabilityLet and be independent standard normal random variables on a probability space , and let and be real numbers with . Then are independent standard normal random variables o…Translation Invariance of Lebesgue Measure and the Lebesgue Integral
lemmalem:lebesgue-translation-invariance-2026aAnalysisProbabilityFor a subset of the real line and a real number , write . Let be the Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measure, and the Borel -algebra. Then for every real : 1. (Sets) For every…Standardization and Cumulative Distribution Function of a Gaussian Random Variable
lemmalem:gaussian-cdf-2026bProbabilityLet be a Gaussian random variable on a probability space , with mean and variance , both defined and finite by Square-Integrability, Mean and Covariance Matrix of a Gaussian Random Vector. Then:…Reflection Invariance of Lebesgue Measure and Symmetry of the Standard Normal Distribution
lemmalem:standard-normal-symmetry-2026aAnalysisProbabilityFor a subset of the real line write . Let be the Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measure, the Borel -algebra, and the standard normal distribution. Then:…- For square-integrable random variables the covariance is the expectation of the product of the centred variables, the variance is the covariance of a variable with itself, and uncorrelated means zero covariance; for square-integrable random vectors the covariance and cross-covari…
Square-Integrability, Mean and Covariance Matrix of a Gaussian Random Vector
lemmalem:gaussian-moments-2026cProbabilityA Gaussian random vector is square-integrable; if it equals m + AZ almost surely with Z standard normal, its mean is m and its covariance matrix is AA^T, and if it is almost surely the constant m, its mean is m and its covariance matrix is zero.Affine Transformations of Gaussian Random Vectors are Gaussian
lemmalem:gaussian-affine-transformation-2026dProbabilityAffine images BX + b and coordinate sub-vectors of a Gaussian random vector are Gaussian, and constants and standard normal vectors are Gaussian.Gaussian Random Vectors and Jointly Gaussian Random Variables
definitiondef:gaussian-random-vector-2026dProbabilityA random vector in R^d is Gaussian if it is almost surely constant or almost surely equal to m + AZ for a standard normal vector Z, a vector m and a matrix A; random variables are jointly Gaussian if the vector they form is Gaussian.Generated Sigma-Algebras Need Not Converge in Mean Square under Convergence of the Generating Random Variables
propositionprp:generated-sigma-algebras-nonconvergence-2026aProbabilityThere exist a probability space , random variables and on it, and a sequence of random variables on it with the following properties, where denotes the -algebra generated by a random variable, measur…Joint Continuity of Conditional Expectation under Mean-Square Convergence
lemmalem:conditional-expectation-joint-continuity-2026aProbabilityLet be a probability space. Let be a sequence of square-integrable random variables and a square-integrable random variable on such that the mean-square distances…Mean-Square Convergence of Sub-Sigma-Algebras
definitiondef:mean-square-convergence-sigma-algebras-2026aProbabilityLet be a probability space, let be a sequence of sub--algebras of , and let be a sub--algebra of . Definition. The sequence …- Let be a probability space and let be a sequence of sub--algebras of indexed by the natural numbers that is nondecreasing: for every . Let…
The Compensated Poisson Process is a Square-Integrable Martingale
theoremthm:compensated-poisson-martingale-2026aProbabilityLet be an intensity function with mean function in the sense of Stochastic Process, Independent Increments, and Inhomogeneous Poisson Process, where is the set of real numbers, and let be an…- Let be a probability space, let be real, and let be a random variable with the Poisson distribution with parameter . Then is square-integrable and, with the expectation and variance of the cited definition,…
Square-Integrable Martingale, Submartingale, and Supermartingale
definitiondef:square-integrable-martingale-2026aProbabilityLet be a filtered probability space and let be a stochastic process on . Write for the function equal to on and off . The process is a…- Versions of conditional expectations given a sub-sigma-algebra reproduce measurable random variables, preserve expectations, are linear and monotone, satisfy the tower property, let known factors be taken out, reduce to the mean under independence, and obey the corresponding line…
- The conditional expectation of an integrable random variable given a σ-algebra G is the set of its versions: the G-measurable integrable functions with the same integrals over the sets of G; for random vectors it is taken componentwise.